Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Black Rock Forest: Tree species identity, diameter and qualitative canopy health measurements (full, partial or dead) from 2005 to 2023 on 12 experimental oak loss plots in Black Rock Forest, NY.

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  • Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

    • Address:
      705 Spear Street
      South Burlington, Vermont 05403
      United States of America

      Phone: (802) 391-4135
      Email: femc@uvm.edu
      Website: www.uvm.edu/femc

Abstract

    Black Rock Forest is a not-for-profit organization with a mission of advancing scientific understanding of the natural world through research, education, and conservation programs. The organization maintains a 3,920-acre forest and a scientific field station in the Hudson Highlands, 60 miles north of New York City. It has been managed as a research forest and biological field station since the 1920s.

People

  • Isabel Ashton: Content Provider

  • Katie Terlizzi: Content Provider

Keywords

  • deer exclosure, forest health, oak,

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  • Environmental Monitoring and Management Alliance : partner

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    • Title: Tree species identity, diameter and qualitative canopy health measurements (full, partial or dead) from 2005 to 2023 on 12 experimental oak loss plots in Black Rock Forest, NY.
    • Start Date: 2005-01-01
    • Description: Black Rock Forest established a series of 12, 0.56 ha plots in 2005 to assess impacts of the loss of tree in the genus Quercus on the forest ecosystem (entitled the Future of Oak Forests experiment). Three trunk girdling treatments, with control plots were instituted in 2008. Each plot also contained an ~10m by ~15m deer exclosure to assess the impact of herbivory post-disturbance. Trees were measured twice per year from 2008 to 2013 (except 2009 when trees were measured once) and once per year from 2014 to 2023. Data include tree species identity, diameter at breast height (DBH), canopy health (a qualitative assessment of approximate cover as full, partial or dead), presence/absence of sprouts, and location within the plot. All live trees equal to or larger than 2.5 cm DBH are included in the dataset.

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    • Object Name: VMC.1792.3980

    • Data Type: mySQL
    • Citation: Schuster, W.F., K.P. Terlizzi, K. Griffin, and S. Naeem. 2024. Tree species identity, diameter and qualitative canopy health measurements (full, partial or dead) from 2005 to 2023 on 12 experimental oak loss plots in Black Rock Forest, NY. ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073

    • Online Distribution: https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/data/archive/project/black-rock-forest-1985-forest-inventory/dataset/tree-species-identity-diameter-qualitative-canopy-1

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